Chapter 499: The Rebellion of the Polynesian Islands (Part 2)
Jiang Cheng got the news from Zhu Wei at the construction site of the temporary residence. He smiled and said to Zhu Wei next to him, "Do you have any ideas?"
Zhu Wei lowered his head and said, "My boss, most of the natives bully the weak and fear the strong. And as far as I know, this gathering of the natives was under the instructions of the local white people. You also know that we Chinese have always been discriminated against outside. Now, although these white people are treating us superficially because of the changes in the situation,
I'm polite, but I'm not convinced at the bottom of my heart. After all, externally we all say that we are hired laborers and security guards."
Jiang Cheng hummed and said, "We have to consider the thoughts of those in Hill. Are there any local indigenous people who can win over them?"
Zhu Wei shook his head and said, "The indigenous people here obey the chiefs, and they believe that we are soft persimmons. White people are not to be offended."
Jiang Cheng narrowed his eyes and said, "Then you can't be polite. I don't want to have to worry about whether there is a fire in the backyard when we go out. The proletariat of the world unites and does not include those chiefs."
Zhu Wei immediately nodded and said, "I understand, I will work with Brother Ye to find a solution."
At this time, Chen Qihan came over with a few soldiers, saluted Jiang Cheng and said, "Hello, boss!"
Jiang Cheng returned the salute and said, "Commander Chen, are everyone used to it now?"
Chen Qihan nodded and smiled and said, "I have gotten used to it in the past two weeks, and I have also started new training. The booklets on anti-landing and landing operations you gave me are really well written, but it will take some time to master them.
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Jiang Cheng hummed and said, "The situation in the archipelago has been a bit unstable recently, have you noticed?"
Chen Qihan nodded and said, "I just want to report this matter. In fact, many people among the indigenous people have been exposed to our red ideas, so we quickly established several underground branches. We learned from this that they are planning to launch a new campaign in April."
A riot was held on the 9th.”
"On the 9th... you really know how to choose a day. These guys... prevented me from seeing a good show." Jiang Cheng said with regret, "What are they going to do? Are they going to do something to us?"
A dead hand? Or a scare?"
Chen Qihan sighed, "There may be shadows of those foreign big noses behind this matter. They did not say any order to be merciful."
Jiang Cheng took a breath and said, "Didn't Ge Ming treat guests to dinner and prepare the comrades for battle? In addition...don't our comrades in the underground party have some ideas of taking advantage of the opportunity to strive for certain Ge Ming results?"
Chen Qihan thought for a while and said, "Some of them did hope to use our strength to drive away the French, but I didn't agree to them."
Jiang Cheng hummed and said, "You are doing the right thing. You cannot promise them, but you can make them a promise. If you help us, you can at least take away a certain political status for them. You must tell them that Ge Ming will do it step by step."
, there is no need to be in a hurry, let’s get the French dominance in touch first, and then we can consider the next step.”
Hill also got the news. He ran to Jiang Cheng's residence and found Jiang Cheng and said, "My boss, I hope I can be the intermediary. I will let them sit down and have a good talk. I believe there is nothing that cannot be discussed."
Jiang Cheng sighed and said, "General Hill, I respect you very much. I also gave them a chance, but they didn't give me a good response. I can only say that as long as they don't riot, I will not take action."
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Hill got Jiang Cheng's promise and immediately went to find the local plantation owners, but found that these people had begun to avoid him. He stamped his feet angrily. At this time, Zhang Aiping and other naval personnel from overseas also arrived. Jiang
Cheng gave him the order to lead the team to go to sea for training. Hill understood that Jiang Cheng wanted him to stay out of the matter. He originally wanted to find Jiang Cheng again, but Zhang Ye stopped him and asked, "Mr. Hill, if you have any way to stop it,
If this is the case, I will let you in."
Hill was stunned for a while, suddenly feeling extremely powerless, and finally took the fleet, Zhang Aiping and others out to sea for training.
Once Hill left, Irving and others felt that the time had become more mature. In their eyes, Hill was protecting those damn Chinese. Now that the Chinese were gone, it was a great opportunity.
April 9, 1941
On the streets of Papeete, the largest city in French Polynesia, countless people are gathering. Most of them are indigenous people, and there are also some white people among them. These white people are blue-collar workers in various factories or plantations. In fact, the number of Chinese is increasing.
Originally, they had the greatest impact. In various Western countries or colonies, the Chinese were excluded on the grounds that the Chinese had occupied local job opportunities, and these white workers have always been the main force in Western countries' anti-Chinese policies.
However, things have changed on the Polynesian Islands. Although Chinese people have entered in large numbers, they are opening up new plantations or working on construction sites. Not only does this not reduce the employment opportunities of these white workers, but they may take the opportunity to demand an increase in income. However, in
Under the slogan "French Polynesian Islands", these white workers were also encouraged to take to the streets. They held slogans to drive away the Chinese and slowly came together with the indigenous people. The indigenous people saw that the white people also acted with them.
, I suddenly felt bolder. When almost everyone gathered, I didn’t know who was organizing it. These people began to walk towards the government building in the city center, preparing to protest to the French department.
Owen looked at the crowd outside, not worried at all. He smiled and took a puff of cigarette and said, "Just watch. When these people are angry enough, light a flame on them and it will be enough to make them explode."
A few natives in suits stood at the front, with sweat dripping from their dark skin. They stood on a high place and shouted to the people below, "Compatriots! The Chinese have invaded our land and taken away our wealth, and they
Not believing in God or gods makes the gods angry and brings misfortune to us. Only by driving them away completely can we become happy and wealthy! Look! There are so many Chinese shops on the streets! They buy goods at low prices, and then
Sell it to us at a high price, take away our hard-earned money, and then buy our women, everyone asks, what should we do?"
From ancient times to the reform and opening up of later generations, China has always been extremely opposed to the behavior of leaving one's hometown, let alone those who go overseas. Except for a small part of these overseas Chinese who go overseas to do business or study abroad, most of them do it because they are in
Unable to live at home and had to move away from home, women among them were extremely rare. This made most Chinese either live alone overseas or marry local indigenous people. Take the Victoria District of Australia in 1881 as an example.
There are 11,759 Chinese in the country, but only 169 were born locally. Even because the Chinese live there and there are not many women, there are many sexual affairs. This also makes Western countries' reports on the Chinese in modern times think that they are disrespectful of etiquette, justice and shame, and have no basic principles.
Morality lacked etiquette and had no concept of chastity. Unlike later generations, Western society at this time was also extremely conservative about matters between men and women. At the same time, because the traditional Chinese concept emphasized the relationship between men outside and women inside, men as masters and women as slaves, this made
Western societies believe that women who marry Chinese are persecuted.
There was such a description in Western books at that time: "Leprosy, opium smoking and unspeakable vices are an integral part of the Chinese body and mind." Even Henry Parks, known as the founding father of Australia, publicly declared, "We
We will never allow any ethnic group with inferior character to be mixed into the Australian population, and we will never allow any ethnic group of inferior character to enter our midst." The inferior ethnic groups here mainly refer to the Chinese at that time.
Encouraged natives and whites waved sticks and chanted "Destroy them! Destroy them!"
Then I don’t know who took the lead and rushed to the closed Chinese store next to it. The store was empty, but the products were also full of goods. There was even a stack of British pounds strangely placed on the table. I thought
The people who caught a few Chinese people to vent their anger were stunned for a moment, and then one of the white people rushed up and tried to grab the pile of pounds.
The robbery started immediately. People died for money and birds died for food. They first looked for money and valuables, and then began to clean up all the goods in the store. For the local aboriginals, even a piece of cloth was a good commodity. They probably wanted to die without proof.
, after the store was looted, several torches were immediately thrown in, and the fire started burning. You know, most of the buildings here are still wooden.
Those who grabbed something wanted more, and those who didn't grabbed it wanted to grab it. Don't think that the indigenous people in the South Pacific were so kind. You know, until later generations, there were still reports of indigenous people snatching teeth from tourists as sacrifices. Here
The honesty of the natives was formed under the constant slaughter of the whites. When the whites took the lead in rioting, they became even more rampant.
Black smoke was burning everywhere. Jiang Cheng, who was at the port, looked at the black smoke in the direction of the city and smiled, and said to Chen Qihan next to him, "Get the troops ready. Everyone has learned that sentence, right?"
Chen Qihan immediately said, "Laydownyourarmsaely! Haha, I've asked all the comrades to say it at least five hundred times. I'm afraid they all know how to say it backwards."
Jiang Cheng nodded and said, "Well, okay, after meeting the enemy, if they don't attack first, let them surrender first. If they don't put down their weapons after saying this three times, kill them immediately. Don't have any hesitation. If we don't give them
A head-on attack will result in more casualties."
Chen Qihan hummed and asked, "Then when will we go out? There are still some Chinese in the city who have not come out."
Jiang Cheng has asked Zhu Wei to try his best to inform the Chinese to leave places where the riots may be affected, but there are still many people who do not believe that riots will occur and are unwilling to walk even a few kilometers. Some people think that they are in white plantations and factories.
There will be no danger at work, and Zhu Wei can't say it clearly. He is afraid that the news will be leaked, so he can only let them go. Now these people are probably in danger.
Jiang Cheng thought for a moment, and finally said cruelly, "You are not allowed to send troops before the time comes. If you can't bear it, you will mess up your plans. In a war, some people have to gnaw bones, and some people can eat meat. It is the same now. We are also in Ge Ming."
, Ge Ming will make sacrifices."
After Jiang Cheng said this, he couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart. Just because of these words, he didn't know how many Chinese people would sacrifice their lives. Jiang Cheng shook his head quickly to get rid of these distracting thoughts and listened carefully to the reports that kept coming.
Slowly, the Chinese who were hiding were caught. There is a devil in everyone's heart. When there is no legal and moral restraint, anyone can become a devil. At first, these Chinese were just beaten and then raped.
They had no clothes on, but blood soon broke out. After the first Chinese fell in a pool of blood, the bright red blood not only did not calm people down, but made them even more fanatical. Grab! Grab! Rob! Burn! Burn! Burn.
!Kill!Kill!Kill!
Suddenly, I don’t know who was the first to take the lead and rush to the place where white people live. Rows of gunshots rang out. A group of police officers were already standing guard at the entrance of the white area. Looking at the smoke from the muzzles of the guns, those
The natives cried and ran back, and then did not dare to attack in this direction again.
"Let's go! Go to the plantations and factories outside! They are all stuff from our island! Let's go and get them back!" Seeing that some people were already unable to hold back and wanted to attack the white area, the leading natives in suits immediately shouted.
stand up.
A slogan rang out. At this time, the shops and Chinese districts in the city were almost destroyed. Many thugs got their loot, but more people didn't get much. People are not satisfied. When they think about the city
In the plantation outside, everyone's eyes are red. Due to the war in Europe, the spices, sugar and other output here have not been completely sold out. If you can find a warehouse and move a bag of spices, you will get rich immediately!
The thugs rushed outside the city under the leadership of some thoughtful people, but once they arrived outside the city, they were no longer under control and rushed in all directions. The newly opened plantations by the Chinese were all far away from the edge of the city, and the really good places were all
It was a plantation owned by white people. Originally, according to Owen and others' ideas, as long as white people stood outside the plantation with guns, even tens of thousands of natives would not dare to charge. But at this moment, an accident happened.
"Whoops!" A bamboo arrow was inserted straight into the neck of a white man outside the plantation. Blood spurted out instantly. The natives and white men in suits who were organized in the mob were stunned for a moment, but others found an opportunity.
, some bold natives rushed forward quickly, and another white man held a shotgun and started shooting, but he was able to kill a few people. After he fired a shot, he was knocked unconscious by a stone. This was the first white man to suffer.
Plantation, but not the last.
God knows how much this inspired the aborigines. It turns out that our bows and arrows can also kill white people.
Many, suddenly, one after another, the guards of the white plantation were killed, the door was opened, and when the warehouse was opened, everyone was stunned, looking at the warehouse full of bags of sugar, spices, etc.
Supplies, everyone is gasping for breath. It is a riot now. Only after it subsides will the devil find out where these things are. If you don't take it, you won't take it!
